Entertainment / Media - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

their communications media. For example, Harrah's Entertainment has built a system that recognizes high rollers whether they are on-line, on the telephone, or in any of its casinos. Lesson 8: Revisit Technologies That Failed In The Past.... View Details

Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

a strong collaboration between the Time to Read national program and media and entertainment giant Time Warner, Inc. Time to Read helps local nonprofits such as Chicago's Off the Street Club recruit... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

Despite all this, the online draft will certainly not be the same. Apart from the lost entertainment value—NFL draft fashion has become a much-watched spectacle in recent years—there are concerns about potential technical challenges. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

25 Aug 2010
News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

all but one showed up, resulting in them all getting into trouble. 2004B used to have dance parties in our classroom in between classes. We always tried to get professors to join in, but they rarely did. One of our sectionmates, who went on to work at MTV before... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2014
Case

MCA Matsushita (A)

By: Andrew Wasynczuk and Karen Huang

Keywords: Music Corporation Of America; Matsushita Electric Industra; Negotiation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Japan

Citation

Educators

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

from the Negotiations That Wrested the NFL from CBS By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—A remarkable 1993 negotiation rocked the world of American football with aftershocks that have directly shaped today’s entertainment and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

or even beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Cent’Anni: The Sinatra Legend at 100 by Richard Muti (MBA 1971) (North Jersey Media Group) This study of the most fascinating entertainer of the 20th century isn’t an... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

industries to truly be off-the-grid in some ways: Not digital-first, not adhering to regular market forces—because it's sports. It's live. And I think now the silver lining for this industry is that opportunity to move away from calling it a sports industry. This is a... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

about the up-and-coming general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America. “I was interested in the entertainment industry and globalization,” Hill recalls. “The article was about the business, not how she led.” So how did “Taran Swan at... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

have to figure out how do you build a business model. Are media rights going to be the way we monetize? What role do ticket sales have? How do we think about where we host events? How do we think about how to foster talent?” There’s a lot... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Arts, Entertainment; Arts, Entertainment

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

need to build ecosystems, networks with those both inside and outside the organization. We are collecting data on how managers build partnerships, even with other industries, to gain insights into how to drive innovation in their organizations. For instance, a manager... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

attended his 60th Reunion in June along with 75 classmates and their wives, friends, and grandchildren, offers this upbeat report: "Almost 20 percent of our class attended, including an alumnus who flew in from China. We even entertained... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

03 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 3

music and K-drama television shows in Asian countries, Chairman Jay Lee, of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, believed that the time was ripe for taking Korean cultural content to the West. One initiative, carried out by the Group's View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

unique perspective: the eyes of entrepreneurs and business firms. Jones and Lluch contribute a final chapter, “Argentine and Chilean Business in the Second Global Economy.” A couple dances on the streets of Buenos Aires. Source: Jorge Dalmau View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

entertainment more often than phone conversations. News on innovations and revolutions in far-flung regions is available instantaneously. These changes, and hundreds more resulting from an explosion of info tech, have changed the nature... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

result, I definitely felt different as I sought opportunities in a less traditional space — entertainment and media — with a later recruiting time frame. How about you, Sonia? Sonia Sahney: I feel like I’ve... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2019 (Revised March 2020)
Case

Choosing the Right Esports Business Model

By: David Collis and Alexander MacKay

Two esports entrepreneurs must choose on which business model to focus their time and money. After successfully launching an online esports coaching platform, a number of new opportunities emerge in the rapidly growing esports space that now has close to one billion... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Business Development; Esports; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Management; Strategy; Sports; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia